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THE physical basis of insect repellency being unknown, the search for new repellents has had to be conducted on an essentially hit-or-miss basis. With the accumulation of evidence that the odours of substances may be correlated with the low-frequency, fundamental vibrations of their molecules1, it seemed worth while to examine the absorption of some typical insect repellents in the far infra-red part of the spectrum.
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WRIGHT, R. Physical Basis of Insect Repellency. Nature 178, 638 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178638a0
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